Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Council of the Medical Women's Federation asked 300 doctor-mothers: Is relief of pain in childbirth necessary? The overwhelming response, reported by the British Medical Journal: yes. Of 196 who replied, 184 were in favor of drugs in the delivery room; only eight were definitely against. The women who answered had a combined experience of 425 confinements. Of these, 66% were in hospitals or nursing homes, where it is easier to relieve pain; only 28% were at home.* But 21% to 36% wanted more relief from pain than they...
...from "the Chief" at Beverly Hills. Dr. Myron Prinzmetal, 41, one of the top U.S. heart specialists and Hearst's personal physician, was showing a movie on his heart researches to the New York Heart Association. The Chief, thinking it would please the doctor, ordered the New York Journal-American to play up the Prinzmetal movie. It was a good medical story. For the first time in history, completely exposed hearts had been photographed in action by high-speed color cameras and the heart action reproduced in slow motion. The pictures indicated that the traditional theory of the heart...
...weekly Atlantic Highlands (NJ.) Journal (circ. 1,050) was short on personal items and society notes because its staff had been temporarily cut in half. Explained Editor William Buckley on Page One: "The Editor's wife, who goes around picking up loose ends after the Editor, is a good eight months pregnant and the doctor says she must take things easy from here on out. That means the number of loose ends she picks up is considerably diminished ... If there is something you want in the paper, or if you know of some little tidbit that's newsy...
...Dowling of George Washington University reported that aureomycin was better than any other antibiotic for treating undulant fever (brucellosis), and that it produced good results against streptococcic and staphylococcic infections, scarlet fever, and a type of pneumonia that doctors sometimes call "primary atypical," sometimes "virus." The British medical journal Lancet has reported that aureomycin "has the widest range of activity of any known antibacterial substance...
After Due Consideration. In London, the War Office's British Army Journal had some advice for civilians of the atomic age: "The best defense today against the atomic bomb is not to be there when it goes...